Colors of Spring

Out of the gray damp of March

and into April. . .

the month of flowering forsythia,
daffodils, tulips, magnolias,
cherry, plum, and pear blossoms.

5" x 7" watercolor painting

 

Between the Lines. . .

. . . there is a lot of crap.

Fantasy Checkers

The checkerboard pattern,
warped perspective,
and my delight in
a play on the words
"fact checkers."

 

Could've Been

These abstract brush strokes could have been
fish, or needles, or dried grass stems.
Could've been
that the movie runs backwards:
hurricanes build homes and lush landscapes -

earthquakes restore tall buildings and old cities -
floods repair roads, remove debris, stabilize hillsides -
and fired guns remove bullets and bring people back to life.

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This is another blank watercolor greeting card
from an ongoing series of abstracts.

Signed and dated on the back,
the prose above are handwritten
on a separate page of vellum,
(convenient for burning if you find the words irritating)
Envelope included.

available on ebay

Get Well Soon

With nothing in mind,
this abstract watercolor card
was created
four months before the pandemic,

using gold marker.

Sure looks to me
like trouble
under a microscope.

The Jealous People

Thinking of You,
the jealous people,
the ones that said
"I hate you."

for sale on ebay

 

Grace comes into focus

Grace comes into focus

afterwards.

available through the artist

We live between

We live between
Heaven and Earth.

available through the artist

Pursuit of happiness

A frenetic, looping chase
around an imagined goal:

the pursuit of happiness.

available through the artist

Somewhere Above

Somewhere above
the chaotic abstractions
is a place of calm.

Those Lines Again

Those lines again,
ever since that drawing class

with Paul Vasquez
back in 1976,
they keep showing up.

Abscape

Abstract turned landscape, again.

Thanks to Jim A. for the new word.

Good Morning Warmup 2

UncErtaiNty
A gelatinous soup of potential,
dimensionless fog of ambiguity,
ubiquitous ambivalence
distilled into two dimensions.

5"x8" watercolor is available from the artist

Green Question

Light and airy as contrails across the sky
what little plane?
who's warm hand?
made these graceful blue strokes
of cryptic writing
through watercolor greens
over sunrise yellow
under sunset orange
to finally land gently
before your loving eyes.

This is a 13 3/4" x 10 3/4" watercolor painting
framed in teak wood under glass,
signed and dated by the artist.

For sale through Etsy

Song of the Didgeridoo

Playful lyrics twisting unexpectedly,
nuanced strokes
of colorful turns of phrase,
do we ever say what we really mean?
Or is it always
poetry
that describes the fluid reality,
the depths and currents
of where we swim?

Back in the studio after another long hiatus,
using watercolors and my favorite flowing organic forms
inspired by the music of the Del Sol Quartet
with Stephen Kent,
 Sculthorpe Complete String Quartets
with Didgeridoo.

This is 14 1/4: x 11 1/2" watercolor painting
framed with teak, under glass.

For sale through Etsy